January 31, 2011. Beaverton, Oregon: e-on software, makers of leading solutions and technologies for Digital Nature, today announced immediate availability of version 5 of Ozone, its atmospheric plugin for 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Cinema4D, and LightWave.

Looking for more training material in the field of 3D modeling? You might want to try Eric Miller’s Introduction to Maxon Bodypaint 3D. Running at 8 hours’ worth of material. It should be able to get you up to speed with today’s 3D painting applications. Tailored for users of all experience levels, it aims to be one of the most comprehensive instructional tools for 3D artists out in the market today.

London – Visual effects software company The Foundry announces MARI 1.2, the latest version of its creative paint and texture tool.

Now shipping, MARI 1.2 adds Python integration, Fractal Noise Tools, Texture Mirroring, and new Shader tools, as well as improved detection and support for GPUs. Support for Python 2.6.5 enables users to produce scripts that seamlessly integrate MARI into their workflow.

Texture Mirroring is useful for painting UV assets and, when combined with the two new fractal noise tools, can be used to add natural looking detail. A new Levels Filter allows you to change the color levels in paint, and new shader modules have been added for masked bump and improved normal mapping.

The world’s two largest manufacturers of flat screen TVs, both based in South Korea, project a huge increase in 3DTV sales this year, 15 million between the two of them.
Those sales alone would be a big increase over total 3DTV sales to date among all manufacturers.
Yoon Boo-geun, president of the visual display business of top-ranked Samsung Electronics Co., based in Suwon, South Korea, said today (Thursday, Feb. 17) that the company expects to rack up 3-D sales of between 9-10 million 3DTVs this year, five times the 2 million sold by the company last year, according to the Associated Press.LG Electronics Inc., headquartered in Seoul, has projected sales of 5 mil. 3D TVs this year.
Samsung shares rose 1 percent to close Thursday at 954,000 won ($854). LG’s stock price, meanwhile, declined 3.3 percent to 118,500 won.

NVIDIA blew what’s left of our minds with its Project Denver announcement yesterday, so today it’s back to the more familiar world of 3D to soothe our souls. The company’s 3D Vision technology has been installed on the above Lenovo L2363d, which touts both three-dimensional output and input, courtesy of a pair of webcam lenses embedded in its top bezel. This 1920 x 1080 display spans 23 inches diagonally and requires the usual active shutter glasses to enjoy its content. So, if you buy one for yourself and your nearest and dearest, you can get your 3D videoconferencing action on in proper Blues Brothers style.

We just might be closer to getting a perfect glasses-free 3D display thanks to MasterImage 3D’s efforts.

MasterImage 3D is giving attendees at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona demonstrations of a an auto-stereoscopic 3D display for mobile devices with a wider viewing angle and brighter image, as well as what the company claims is a groundbreaking 3D user interface that shows the beginnings of the holographic mobile experience.